Traditionalist Catholicism
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Traditionalist Catholicism is a movement that emphasizes beliefs, practices, customs, traditions, liturgical forms, devotions and presentations of teaching associated with the Catholic Church before t
Mass celebrated ad orientem according to the Tridentine form of the Roman Rite. The ornate altar and priests' vestments are characteristic of Traditionalist Catholic practice.
Tridentine Mass in a chapel of the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Boston, Palm Sunday 2009
Altar of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, erected in 1700 and still used today. It faces both east and versus populum (towards the people).
Saint Peter's Basilica facade, Rome, Italy
Society of Saint Pius X
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The Society of Saint Pius X is a traditionalist Catholic organization founded in 1970 by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. Considered schismatic by the Catholic Church, the society comprises priests and sem
Traditionalist Catholicism
…were listed as being on a leave of absence by their bishops, who disapproved of their actions. In 1970, French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre founded the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX), made up of priests who would say only the Traditional Latin Mass and who opposed what he saw as excessive liberal influences in the Church after…
Lefebvre, the society's founder, celebrating the Traditional Latin Mass
Veldhoven, Archbishop Lefebvre giving Communion assisted by Franz Schmidberger
Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet, Paris, occupied by SSPX since 1977
St. Willibrord's Church, Utrecht, Netherlands, operated by SSPX since 2015